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andersa
3y ago
Yes, that is the point. The options we have are changing these fundamentals, or continuing down the path of ever more aggressive stochastic methods for filtering out most of the bots. At some point balance will tip where an internet with on
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andersa
3y ago
The broken thing is that anyone can send any unsolicited traffic anywhere, making Cloudflare a requirement for hosting a website. If we had properly authenticated traffic only that verifiably comes from a human, we would not need all these
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andersa
3y ago
Website admin can solve this and still have protection by enabling caching of the rss feed, using a transform rule to drop all fields that could mess with the cache key, and then reducing the security level for that url. The cache works fin
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andersa
3y ago
There is no other viable solution for hosts. Once we can finally have properly authenticated traffic that verifiably comes from a human all this nonsense with captchas can end.
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andersa
3y ago
Finally!
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andersa
4y ago
Of course small companies don't use it, because it is outrageously expensive.
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andersa
4y ago
This makes no sense. It's an argument for proper security controls and permissions setup on the OS level, not an app store.
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andersa
4y ago
I wonder if hiding the tool would help. Anyone interested could simply archive and hoard potentially interesting images until such tool emerges later. So in reality, it would change nothing, only slightly delay the images being extracted. T
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andersa
4y ago
Why watch sports or tv shows or anything at all? It's other people having fun.
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andersa
4y ago
While it is quite clunky and slow, and could be so much better, I don't see any reason to call it malware.
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andersa
4y ago
The home office equipment can be bought from the higher salaries the companies are able to provide now that they don't need to waste as much money on office rent. Of course, getting a good chair is just as important as it used to be!
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andersa
4y ago
Because it is? It's time you can't spend on your hobbies. Of course, if repeatedly driving the same route every day is one of those, then go ahead.
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andersa
4y ago
I never understood why anyone would spend hours traveling each day just so they can sit in front of a computer in another place for a while and go back home. Glad the world has caught up with this being complete nonsense!
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andersa
4y ago
I wonder if this is because the default theme for it is somewhat ugly, and most developers aren't designers to make it look better. It is perfectly capable of rendering standalone applications, if you want it to...